These employees usually work in meat packing plants. Their duties may include making sausage, slaughtering, packing meat, or cutting and wrapping meats. This job can be dangerous as sharp tools are often used and work environments can be unsanitary. To become a slaughterer or meat packer, a high school diploma or its equivalency may be required, but not always. On-site job training is minimal as well.

A Slaughterer or Meat Packer can get salaries ranging between 16000 - 24000 depending on experience and domain knowledge. Slaughterers and Meat Packers will most likely earn a pay level of Twenty Four Thousand One Hundred dollars yearly.

Slaughterers and Meat Packers have the best average pay in Massachusetts, where they can earn an average salary rate of approximately $28980. People who work inside these careers can obtain the highest salaries in Wholesale Trade, which has compensation, on average, of $24080.